NBIA is supported by the Imaging Knowledge Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
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About NBIA
The National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA) is a free and open source service and software application that enables users to securely store, search, and download diagnostic medical images. Along with the Clinical Trial Processor software from the Radiological Society of North America, it supports customized de-identification of images. NBIA is able to integrate with other caBIG® applications to cull various data types, such as image annotations, clinical data, genomic data, and other research files, such as RT objects. It can also federate with other instances of NBIA to support the response of multiple NBIA servers to a single query. CBIIT¹s hosted instance of NBIA is freely available and provides researchers and clinicians with a robust DICOM archive that can securely share and access images to enhance scientific research and support clinical decision making. Anyone can deploy a local node of NBIA and, using caBIG's caGrid infrastructure, securely share data across the grid.
The ultimate goals of the project include:
- Creation of an imaging informatics infrastructure that provides cost-effective support for purpose-built and other databases as necessary, precluding the need to create separate infrastructure for each database;
- Development of searchable imaging reference libraries linked to clinical outcomes data to assist researchers and practitioners;
- Availability of the archive for mining and integration by the broader research and clinical community; and
- Robust support for data-driven decision making in oncology and medical practice in general by clinicians throughout the world.
A Web-based visualization and annotation tool, I-Response, is available to users of NCI's NBIA instance. I-Response provides immediate on-screen visualization of DICOM images integrated with NBIA query results and soon will support persistence of annotations from client to NBIA archive.
What's New
NBIA 5.0.2 was released on April 25, 2011. Links to all documentation and files are available on GForge.
At-a-Glance Details
- Current Version Number: 5.0.2
- Release Date of Current Version: April 2011
- Intended Audiences: Investigators and Researchers
- Primary Workspace: IMAG
- Currently caGrid Enabled: Yes
- caBIG compatibility Level: Not yet determined
Learn more about compatibility levels
Technical Information
- Tool Maturity Assessment: Mature Product (Successfully adopted)
- Architecture Level: Desktop Application, Web Application
- Installation Level: Intermediate, Advanced--technical team required for installation
System Requirements
Provides Web-based access to deidentified DICOM images, markups, and annotations using role based security. The NBIA download package is a ZIP package that includes the NBIA application, supporting libraries, the RSNA Clinical Trial Processor (CTP) submission client/server (with NBIA modifications), and associated documentation.
Presentations, Demos and Other Materials
- NBIA Demonstration – 20-minute audio over slides and screencast (turn speakers on). If the slides appear to "freeze" during playback, press pause and then play to realign the playback stream.
- Download Demo Slides – to also download the Power Point slides for this demonstration.
Documentation and Training
caBIG® Materials
Access the caBIG® Learning Management System to learn about training programs, register for classes, track progress, and stay informed about training offerings. Explore the catalog to see what is available. You will need to create an account before registering for classes.
Additional Materials
NBIA Knowledge Base
The Imaging Knowledge Center was launched on February 28, 2011, and we are currently building the knowledge base for the NBIA. Coming soon will be answers to the most frequently asked questions, tutorials, supporting data, case studies, and scheduled training demonstrations.
- Getting started with CTP (Clinical Trials Processor)
- NBIA Citations
- NBIA Glossary (in the Online Help)
Installation and Downloads
- Link to Login Page
- Link to NBIA SVN
- NBIA Installation Guide
- Sign up for this listserv to receive updates about this tool.
Forums and Support for NBIA
- End User Forum
- Developer Forum
- CBIIT Application Support ncicb@pop.nci.nih.gov
- NBIA User listserv
Submit Defects and feature requests on NBIA
Open Source Development
Integration with other tools
caIntegrator2 can query for imaging data in an instance of NBIA via a Java API. Once a group of patients is selected, you can access NBIA to review the patients images and associated metadata, and download the DICOM data as needed.